The "Quick Questions That Don't Deserve A Thread"...Thread. v5 - Hardware & Software

Yeah that's I've been thinking. I've been on the verge of confirming the payment an i5-6600k but I canceled the transaction on the last moment because one thing shot through my mind: Recently I'm not playing any intensive games at all. Should I really make the purchase now or just wait for a while? The most intensive thing this CPU takes is compiling with Hammer, which doesn't take that long anyway on my maps, so idk, I'm quite lost here.

Well for the tasks I mostly throw at it it's good enough yet. I do want to get Fallout 4 though, but I might as well wait for more titles to come out to make it actually more worthwhile to upgrade. At least thanks a lot for the advice! You did manage to get me a significantly better idea what to do here.

[QUOTE=Levelog;48986640]Not at all. It's an ultra low voltage CPU with the lowest end Core i series integrated graphics.[/QUOTE] Could you give me some suggestions for a reasonable priced gaming laptop ?

would 2 Noctua NF-F12 fans be good cpu fans for overclocking an i5-3570k? heatsink is a 212 evo.

[QUOTE=TonyTheBean;48988633]would 2 Noctua NF-F12 fans be good cpu fans for overclocking an i5-3570k? heatsink is a 212 evo.[/QUOTE] Yeah, it's a pressure oriented fan so it'd be a great choice.

[QUOTE=Levelog;48988756]Yeah, it's a pressure oriented fan so it'd be a great choice.[/QUOTE] great, ordered 2.

Anyone know why programs that refuse to work on my primary windows login work perfectly on a second login I just made right now? GTA V installer crashes instantly without any warnings, same with Autodesk CFD, and DCS world. After just making a new account, everything runs great?

do you have to plug monitors into the GPU's ports? Is there any benefit to them over the standard mobo?

[QUOTE=BigJoeyLemons;48991276]do you have to plug monitors into the GPU's ports? Is there any benefit to them over the standard mobo?[/QUOTE] You have to plug in at least one, so the driver for the GPU becomes active. You generally just want to use the GPU ports for the sake of less confusion, driver issues, and such. Plus some motherboards only support one or the other. Its important to note that the GPU only directly controls the ports on itself, and the onboard only directly controls the ports on the motherboard. That being said, if your motherboard supports it, you CAN use your GPU and onboard graphics ports simultaneously. And from what I can tell, the onboard graphics will let the GPU do all the actual rendering tasks so there is barely a performance difference. Its handy if you need more monitors than your GPU supports. You actually have to do this on older Intel HD graphics so you can use Quicksync video encoding. I'm not sure if Intel just allows it to be used now without a monitor on the Intel graphics.

[QUOTE=BigJoeyLemons;48991276]do you have to plug monitors into the GPU's ports? Is there any benefit to them over the standard mobo?[/QUOTE] yea, if you plug your monitor into your motherboard's output then you are not using your gpu.

[QUOTE=gaboer;48991036]Anyone know why programs that refuse to work on my primary windows login work perfectly on a second login I just made right now? GTA V installer crashes instantly without any warnings, same with Autodesk CFD, and DCS world. After just making a new account, everything runs great?[/QUOTE] Do you have any non-alphanumeric characters in your (internal) Windows username? If so, that would cause those non-alphanumeric characters to go to your folder's name in "C:\Users", and I once learned the hard way that a lot of things break if you have a folder like "C:\Users\♥Cutesy-Nonsense". While I doubt that you have hearts in your username, you might have something like Æ or ú in there, which would have the same deleterious effects.

Hey guys, in a bit of a pickle right now and not sure what to do right now. Noticed some games I've been playing were acting strangely compared to when I've last played them and decided to check on my hard-drives. Chkdisk and error checking report that nothing is wrong with my hard drive but I have these programs say otherwise. [t]https://i.imgur.com/He9wQhy.png[/t] My primary system SSD drive is fine, but the three year old Seagate Barracuda has a higher reallocated sectors count compared to when I did a checkup last year. Even though Windows is reporting everything is fine and dandy; I'm pretty certain my drive is about to kick the bucket. Just wanted to know if I should consider buying a new hard drive pretty soon? Besides a small amount of cloud storage I have no way of backing up.

I found that an issue like that is fixable if you plug the failing drive into a different computer with a USB to SATA adapter, then run chkdsk with /f and /r commands. I did that on my old HDD and I currently use it as an external drive, it doesn't seem to have any issues.

So I'm probably going to upgrade my 290X to a 980 Ti, however I don't know if I'll be able to take full advantage of it with my 3570k. Would I see much difference with a 980 Ti between a 3570k @ 4.4 Ghz and a 6700k?

I saw some benchmark comparisons between a bunch of older CPU's and the 6700K, the general consensus was that the 6700K is only really worth it if you were already planning to upgrade from an older 4-core or 2-core CPU, it's not THAT much more powerful than other similar processors.

aw fuck I had the audacity to assume that putting the fan controller software on the startup would just make it work, and I didn't actually check to see it was running before I played a 20 minute game. Of course wasn't running. Could have been running anywhere from 55-75c, card wont be damaged right?

[QUOTE=General J;48995871]aw fuck I had the audacity to assume that putting the fan controller software on the startup would just make it work, and I didn't actually check to see it was running before I played a 20 minute game. Of course wasn't running. Could have been running anywhere from 55-75c, card wont be damaged right?[/QUOTE] Below 90 C is fine, not recommended but fine on AMD cards especially

[QUOTE=tom1029;48994366]So I'm probably going to upgrade my 290X to a 980 Ti, however I don't know if I'll be able to take full advantage of it with my 3570k. Would I see much difference with a 980 Ti between a 3570k @ 4.4 Ghz and a 6700k?[/QUOTE] keep your processor for gaming, it's not worth upgrading to skylake + DDR4. [url]http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/1289[/url]

[IMG]http://th3applek1d.ga/i/3fp7195x.png[/IMG] Why the fuck is Python and TightVNC taking up so much space? I just installed TightVNC last night! I can't find any files that relate to either of them anywhere that are taking up anywhere near this much space.

Could it be that updating TightVPN didn't delete old/unnecessary old files from older installations? 7.55 GB is still a lot for old installation files, but you never know.

Have you got a whole lot of Python packages installed? PyQt specifically would probably be a huge one

[QUOTE=Jaehead;48996034]keep your processor for gaming, it's not worth upgrading to skylake + DDR4. [url]http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/1289[/url][/QUOTE] Gah, while I know it would probably make minimal difference I kinda wanna just do a whole PC upgrade and it'd be nice to bring all the parts up to the same tier, I dunnooooo. Also do we know anything about when new Intel / nVidia releases are? I'm assuming that whatever the next gen equivalent of the 980 Ti is (1080 Ti?) it won't be for about a year (since the next series hasn't even begun to release yet). My friend says to wait for the i7 "6770k" but I have no idea if that's actually a thing. Is there likely to be a new i7 above the 6700k but below the extreme ones any time soon? Basically is there any reason to wait if I was gonna buy a 6700k and 980 Ti? Price drops? New versions? Thanks

it's going to be a while before your processor becomes obsolete. Quite a while. The rate at which processors improve is slowing to a crawl, at least on the Intel side of things (amd has a fuckton of slack to pick up).

[QUOTE=lavacano;48996931]Have you got a whole lot of Python packages installed? PyQt specifically would probably be a huge one[/QUOTE] Nope. Literally never use Python on this machine. Especially no dependencies/packages.

[QUOTE=tom1029;48996942]Gah, while I know it would probably make minimal difference I kinda wanna just do a whole PC upgrade and it'd be nice to bring all the parts up to the same tier, I dunnooooo. Also do we know anything about when new Intel / nVidia releases are? I'm assuming that whatever the next gen equivalent of the 980 Ti is (1080 Ti?) it won't be for about a year (since the next series hasn't even begun to release yet). My friend says to wait for the i7 "6770k" but I have no idea if that's actually a thing. Is there likely to be a new i7 above the 6700k but below the extreme ones any time soon? Basically is there any reason to wait if I was gonna buy a 6700k and 980 Ti? Price drops? New versions? Thanks[/QUOTE] new hardware is always coming out. i'd upgrade whenever you feel like you need to upgrade. new hardware releases have incremental boosts in performance and you're always going to be waiting for the 'next big thing' with that kind of mindset. 980 ti should be quite a substantial boost compared to your 290x. rock the 3570 for another year or two then overhaul the rest of your stuff. that's what I think anyway.

[QUOTE=J Paul;48979418]What's the best video card I can get away with with an Antec hcg520m power supply? Keep in mind the PSU is also powering two hdds, one ssd, a midrange i5 (no oc), a few fans, and an add-on card. It is currently powering a gtx 970 with no issues whatsoever, but if I could upgrade to a 980ti without swapping any other components, that wouldn't hurt my feelings at all.[/QUOTE] Could anyone answer this for me? I hate to be rude or annoying, I'm just really curious what my max upgrade potential is, and I figure I'd be better off just posting it again for the new page.

Hey all, I know this is probably the millionth time this question has been asked, and probably for the same reason, but what would be a nice new graphics card for me? I just got Fallout 4 (pre-ordered) for my birthday this Friday, and if I'm not mistaken I only JUST meet the minimum requirements, and I'd love to play it smoothly, as well as other games. Here are my specs: [img]http://i.imgur.com/H14wCaP.png[/img] And yeah, I know my resolution is pitiful, but monitors are annoyingly expensive, and I can't find a good deal on a nice one. If I need to upgrade anything else that'd be nice to know too.

Well that's annoying, my bad. I had the Nvidia GeForce experience program open, and that had my GPU listed. I have a GeForce GTX 560 Ti

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;48998073]yeah you're just above what they claimed minimum if you're looking at some upgrade whats your budget?[/QUOTE] Well, I've already received $250, with the potential for a little more. I have a little bit of my own money saved up too, but I can't go crazy. So minimum of $250 till whatever, I'll see if I can swing it? I'm assuming my processor, motherboard, ram, powersupply, etc, are fine, with mainly my graphics card needing an upgrade.

I like the looks of the 970. Also, this was my original order, and has the mobo and psu info [img]http://i.imgur.com/F73TVWU.png?1[/img] And yeah, I had the same monitor back then too...